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This leads me to say, never give out your personal information on the Internet. Not only do you not know the person on the other side, but if a virus is on your computer, it can be tracking EVERYTHING you type, and send all the info to an unreliable company. And if your best friend who comes over everyday asks for your address in an e-mail, you know it's NOT them, and someone hacked their account. Do NOT reply.

Delete Important Files
A virus can manage to delete your big 10 page essay your resume, or other files that you worked hard on. Viruses don't care what they destory. They just destory, destory, destory.

Infect Your Files
A virus can make duplicate copies of itself, and spread from file to file. The more files infected, the harder it will be to get rid of the virus.

Spread
A virus can attach itself to an e-mail you are sending to a friend, and the minute they open the e-mail, their computer is infected too.

Now that you know the horrid things a virus does to your computer, you probably want to be extra sure you are doing the right things to prevent viruses.

. . .

Well, I can help with that, too.

DO NOT download ANYTHING onto your computer before checking that it is a real company and that it doesn't have viruses.

Do not give out personal information on the Internet.

IQ Tests, Quizes, etc, that pop up are NOT real. At the end, they always ask for a cell phone number/e-mail address. This is just to spam you.

You are the 1,000,000th visitor pop-ups are fake. Don't even open them. They download viruses on your computer.

Before downloading anti-virus programs, check on the internet that it is a reliable one.

DO NOT press any buttons to a message that pops up, even if you are just pressing the red 'X', "no", or "cancel". Just leave your computer, and tell a parent/guardian. Example:

This is what you should do: press alt+control+delete at the same time, and a little box should open up called "Task Manager". Close the box from there, instead of clicking the red X. Clicking the red X puts the virus into your computer. After that, tell a parent/guardian, or call a parent/guardian and they can do it for you, if you still aren't sure how. Either way, in the end they should know what happened. You should also scan your computer just in case.

Originally Posted by Desty

Great info! Thanks again for posting it.
I was just talking to a 'computer guy' at Office Depot, who was fixing my dd's computer, and he said not to even go through the 'control-alt-delete' sequence. (that doesn't clear that pop-up completely) He said just hold down the manual turn-off button on your computer and totally shut it down. (don't just restart, it needs to shut down completely) He said it might take 10 or 15 seconds of holding down the button.

Yes, Desty is very true, I forgot to mention this. Sometimes, if Task Manager freezes up, you have to just hold down the power button of your computer and it should turn off. Then hit the power button again and wait for your computer to start up again. However, if you are in the middle of doing something that needs to be saved, I would definitely try Task Manager before turning off your computer.

Great info! Thanks again for posting it.
I was just talking to a 'computer guy' at Office Depot, who was fixing my dd's computer, and he said not to even go through the 'control-alt-delete' sequence. (that doesn't clear that pop-up completely) He said just hold down the manual turn-off button on your computer and totally shut it down. (don't just restart, it needs to shut down completely) He said it might take 10 or 15 seconds of holding down the button.

Great info! Thanks again for posting it.
I was just talking to a 'computer guy' at Office Depot, who was fixing my dd's computer, and he said not to even go through the 'control-alt-delete' sequence. (that doesn't clear that pop-up completely) He said just hold down the manual turn-off button on your computer and totally shut it down. (don't just restart, it needs to shut down completely) He said it might take 10 or 15 seconds of holding down the button.

yeah, I know about that! I had tried to open something on my Netbook and the computer just froze up. I called my dad over and he told me I needed to power flush it and he held down the power button for 20 seconds while telling me this. The Internet can be dangerous!

Great info! Thanks again for posting it.
I was just talking to a 'computer guy' at Office Depot, who was fixing my dd's computer, and he said not to even go through the 'control-alt-delete' sequence. (that doesn't clear that pop-up completely) He said just hold down the manual turn-off button on your computer and totally shut it down. (don't just restart, it needs to shut down completely) He said it might take 10 or 15 seconds of holding down the button.

Yes, I forgot to mention that. If task manager freezes completely, you should do that. Thanks everyone for reading!

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